Erwin Wurm

Taking a moment to admire the wonderful work of Erwin Wurm (Wurm at Xavier Hufkens). (Video, Desperate Philosophers)
I am a long-time and on-going fan

Cellato

Sound piece over footage: Cellist Seeli Toivio perform Live in Concert: Elgar Cello Concerto 3rd movement. Nov 28, 2008. Conductor: Nazanin Aghakhani. LaTempesta and visiting artists. Temple Church (Rock Church), Helsinki.

Glen

Glen Gould sound piece

Matthew Barney, wide stripe crewneck

Barney now

Take My Breath Away

Top Gun Volley Ball Scene Video Sound Piece

Action Reaction

to be played all at once

Dance Theater Workshop

Created in 1965, Fresh Tracks is Dance Theater Workshop's longest running series of new dance and performance. Featuring works by emerging artists selected through open auditions, Fresh Tracks artists are presented each year, and following their performance week, receive a 50-hour creative residency along with introductory level professional development workshops in marketing and fundraising strategies. Artists also participate in dialogue sessions with Artistic Advisor Levi Gonzalez, facilitating open discussion about their creative process.

February 11-13 at 7:30pm | February 12 at 10pm

BUY TICKETS HERE: $15

Crediting:

1. Naughty Bits | Choreography by Jen McGinn
2. We are Weather | Choreographed by Vanessa Anspaugh & Dancers
3. Good Girl | Choreographed by Liz Santoro
4. Heart Ain't In It: Four Chamber Studies | Arrangement by Enrico D. Wey
5. up and down | Choreographed by Makiko Tamura
6. The Miner | Choreographed by Eleanor Smith

Photographer:   Yi-Chun Wu

Fountain Studios: One Time Works

OPENING
Fountain 604 Grand Ave (between St. marks and Bergen) Brooklyn
Jan. 16th 7 to 10
Dan Blake
Yoni Niv
Matthew Abbott
Tom Burtonwood
Stephanie Costello
Michael Zachary

Øyvind Aspen

Black Car




Super 16mm transferred to HD video, 16:9, colour, 3 ch. Sound, 8m 25s
(2009)

Thomas Demand:

Tunnel



The film presumably shows a fast-paced tracking shot through the tunnel in which Lady Diana Spencer, Princess of Wales, died in a car crash. At first the viewer seems to remember seeing these images in the media. But in reality the set is a true to life, cardboard mock-up of architectural details. Under closer inspection, one also realizes that instead of reproducing reality Thomas Demand creates a perfectly-constructed model world. The cleverly-lit cardboard scenery takes up an incident of recent history and, in doing so, mirrors the illusionary features of what appear to be familiar images. The film literally reflects upon the model of our relationship to images from the mass media. In the process, the construction, representation and repetition of reality create a complex weaving of connections. That the accident used as the theme was the result of a hectic, car chase caused by paparazzi lends the work yet another aspect of the reflection of the media.

Animal Collective, Another White Singer

Animal Collective, Taste

Terrible Things

Dec 3rd-Dec 20th at PS122 with special performances by Aretha Aoki Dec 12th and 13th





Aretha Aoki has been understudying Emily Johnson's role and will be performing on Sat, Dec 12 (both the 8 pm and 10 pm performances) and Sun, Dec 13 (6 pm).
"It's a really smart and engaging play with plenty of dance and ...marshmellows! and wrestlers. Enticing, yes?"

"Next time D'Amour and Pearl bring their enchanting work to town be sure to take it in." - John del Signore, The Gothamist

"The collaborative team of playwright Lisa D'Amour and director Katie Pearl make beguiling, innovative theatre pieces." - American Theater Magazine

Science Tuesday meets Oklahoma angst as Lisa D'Amour and Katie Pearl flip P.S. 122 into a low-rent IMAX and get up close and in between molecules, quarks and memories. Have you ever wondered if all those lives you've imagined yourself living are actually happening in a parallel world(s)? Terrible Things takes audiences on a T-R-I-P inside the many lives of Katie Pearl and her action-figure literary mom. Expect an in-your-body out-of-body experience shaped by Katie Pearl, three killer dancers: Emily Johnson, Morgan Thorson, and Karen Sherman, two Brazilian Jiu Jitsu wrestlers, and 1000 marshmallows. Featuring the choreography of Emily Johnson.

With funding from The Moore Family Fund for the Arts of the Minneapolis Foundation and made possible with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency.

Olaf Breuning

Go see Olaf Breuning at Metro Pictures because it's really good









check out another sweet Olaf Breuning page here at Artsy !

We Are Weather

We Are Weather: Vanessa Anspaugh
Performed by Aretha Aoki, Lily Gold, and Mary Reed



"This past weekend Danspace Project presented FOOD FOR THOUGHT, three evenings each curated by a different guest artist: Ursula Eagly (Thursday), Maura Donohue (Friday), and Enrico D. Wey (Saturday). This is a great program in which we collect food donations for a local non-profit, in this case St. Mark's Church's food pantry. One of our members, John Vinton, emailed me on Sunday to share his experience:

"I came on Friday [FOOD FOR THOUGHT, November 13] and was so gratified by the experience that I came again on Saturday. I'm sorry now that I didn't come Thursday! Having professionals put together these programs was wonderful. Their points of view gave me insight into what matters to them aesthetically, and what they see as important trends. It was always interesting and in a few cases very moving. Thanks again for a great weekend!"

Become a member right now and get TWO-FOR-ONE tickets to see Luis Lara Malvacias at Danspace this weekend Thursday-Saturday, November 19-21, 8:00 PM. Join by Friday at 5:00 PM for TWO-FOR-ONE tickets!

All best,

Judy Hussie-Taylor

Executive Director"

Aunts is Dance

Definitely something to see:

Aunts

Applause

applause from Ryan MacDonald on Vimeo.

large scale video installation with flashing red applause sign

Dutch

video story, with one favorite line used from Watt, because why not

In the mud, in her arms

video story

THE REAL

THE REAL at Fountain Studios
October 10th to November 7th
Opening Reception October 10th 6 to 10

George Creamer
Anthony Elms
Susan Gargiulo
Troy Hagenbart
Brian Kapernekas
Ryan MacDonald
Joey Tipton
Lawrence Webber

"1c. suppose we gradually and equally shorten all the four legs of a table. Its reality as a table lessens because the probability of our using it as a table lessens, but its reality as a bench may gradually increase because the probability of our using it as a bench increases."
Cardinal Polatuo
-Stefan Themerson

SCREENING October 10th 8pm
"OTHER PEOPLE" by Other People
Britt Brewer
John Peery
Candace Thompson
other peeps









Fountain Studios
604 Grand Avenue Brooklyn NY 11238

Come on Charlie, Come on

When You Think Of It

Going Public Contemporary Lit Series
at Amherst Cinema

Thursday September 17, 7:00pm
Special General Admission: $5

This is a movie. Not Lone Star. Not The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner. Not Pillow Talk. Not All That Heaven Allows. Not The Awful Truth. Not Blazing Saddles. Not The Crying Game. Not Every Man for Himself. Not Ship of Fools. Not the Lady Vanishes. Not Dark Victory. This is a notnostrums movie. In this movie people are reading poems in many places.

Experience the world premier of the debut film by notnostrums, an innovative online poetry journal. Featuring renowned and emerging poets reading new work in a wide range of unexpected places. WHEN YOU THINK OF IT re-imagines the way poetry reaches us and presents a dazzling array of contemporary poetry.

Presented in collaboration with the UMass MFA Program for Poets and Writers, the Juniper Initiative, the Amherst Cinema Arts Center and the UMass Fine Arts Center.

If You Think Of It (Trailer) from notnostrums on Vimeo.

Fountain Studios: Under the Same Shadow

UPCOMING Sept 5th to Oct 3rd/////////Owen Rundquist and Alex DeMaria//////Under the Same Shadow

Fountain Studios is pleased to present Under the Same Shadow, a collaborative exhibition featuring the work of artists Alexander DeMaria and Owen Rundquist. DeMaria and Rundquist explore the place of ritualism and the occult in a pop context. For the exhibition the two artists have created a multi-media sculptural installation. By referring to ancient ritualistic structures and incorporating elements from a variety of pre-Christian belief systems, the past and present inform one another in this piece through the lens of subculture. The work also includes a sound element composed by the artists, making direct reference to the world of extreme heavy metal. By removing this piece of cultural phenomena from its conventional setting and placing it in an atavistic environment, the artists effectively travel full-circle, returning popular culture to a place of extinct ritualism and bringing a pop sensibility to ancient practice.


Alex DeMaria





Owen Rundquist





Fountain Studios
troy@fountainstudiosny.com
604 Grand Avenue
Brooklyn NY 11238

Whitney's Biennial

For Immediate Release

Media Contact:
Whitney
whitneysbiennial@gmail.com


“WHITNEY’S BIENNIAL” OPENS AUGUST 28 FOR ONE WEEKEND ONLY

Brooklyn, NY – Thirty-Seven Artists are participating in the 2009 Whitney’s Biennial, opening at 70 Greenpoint Avenue (c.r.e.a.m. projects) on Friday August 28, 2009 from 7-11 PM, running through Sunday August 30, 2009. Gallery hours are 12-6 PM.

The 2009 Whitney’s Biennial is an interdisciplinary group exhibition, taking place in an unoccupied commercial space in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. The exhibition re-envisions the ubiquitous Biennial formula by personalizing the institution, paring it down to a single person. Whitney is the proverbial Every Artist, the flesh-and-bone actor laboring under the shadows of giants. This is her Biennial.

The exhibition explores the dubious notion of the comeback and opens days before the release of Whitney Houston’s new album. In a moment when the entire world is waiting to see if and when the economy will recover, the artist is in need of a new strategy.

The participating artists are widely diverse — from those who have exhibited in major museums such as the Whitney Museum of American Art, to the graffiti artist, to the underground filmmaker, to the recent MFA graduate. All have been asked to meet on common ground, outside of the white cube, to create new works for this show.

The 2009 Whitney’s Biennial is organized by MaryKate Maher, Martha Mysko, Elise Rasmussen and Davida Nemeroff.


Artists

These are the artists selected for the 2009 Whitney’s Biennial:

Anna Rosen

Austin Shull

Carrie Schneider

Chelsea Knight

Christine Sun Kim & Jacob Shamberg

Davida Nemeroff

Douglas Boatwright

Elise Rasmussen

Fia Backström

Jesse Harris

Joey Whiteley

Joshua von Brown

Julia Kennedy

Kara Walker

Kelli Thompson

Kotama Bouabane

Leidy Churchman

Martha Mysko

MaryKate Maher & Oliver Jones

Mauricio Salgado
Michael Berryhill

Michael Farmer

Mira Dancy

Paul Heyer

Per Billgren

Peter Harkawik

Roe Ethridge

Roshani Thakore

Samara Golden

Shawn Kuruneru

Tony Romano

Tuomas Korpijaakko

Valerie Piraino

Victoria Cheong

William Kidman

Opening August 28th, 7-11PM
Free Limo Rides, courtesy of Whitney
After Party: Coco66 (68 Greenpoint Avenue), 11PM – 4AM

Special performance by Castlemusic on Saturday August 29, 2009 at 8:00 PM

The Still Collective

In The Woods: Aretha Aoki

We Are Weather: Vanessa Anspaugh







Saw this incredible show August 19 at the Blue Barn at Bramble Hill Farm in North Amherst.
More dance to come soon from these two remarkable talents.

Surf and Turf

Last May's video collage triptych from a larger whole